2026 marks 100 years of Portsmouth’s city status – and as one of the Railway Work, Life & Death project co-leads, Mike Esbester, is based…
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This page is one of a series introducing railway staff who worked in and around Stoke-on-Trent before 1939. They’ve been researched as part of the…
Very often the Railway Work, Life & Death project has focused on ‘front-line’, operational staff, who kept the trains moving. They’ve been clustered in roles…
This summer, we’ll be introducing a vast run of records to the Railway Work, Life & Death project database of accidents to British and Irish…
Marking both Women’s History Month and St David’s Day, today’s blog post focuses on one place we’re going to find Welsh railwaywomen in the Railway…
In this blog post we start a series, running through the rest of the year, produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part…
In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
In this guest post marking the start of Women’s History Month, Dr Susan Major – another of us with a connection to York – explores…